This is a book I’ve been wanting to read for a long
time. This is one of few books I bought
NEW. Most of the books I buy are either
from an author or from a used bookstore but this was a book I wanted, no I
needed to read. I first saw Bodyslick in
an ad in Vibe magazine. The cover was
nice and it looked like an album cover more than the cover of a book. I consider myself late to reading because I
didn’t start reading for fun until my 40s.
I blame the lack of interesting books among other things. I love Science Fiction but even the books
which had interesting and crazy monsters on the cover read boring. They had weird words and corny reactions. I feel that if there were more people like me
in the stories I would have read more.
That’s why as a writer I am writing for myself at 16. That brings me back to Bodyslick. Since it looked so Hip Hopish I thought it
might be good and similar to my own writing and goal.
Bodyslick was exactly what I thought it was. It is a fast moving, urban talking
story. It reminded me of my own
writing. Bodyslick has the tough edge of
Streetlit with the Sci-fi setting of Blade Runner. Bodyslick tells the story of a human body
parts dealer Malcolm Steel Jr aka Bodyslick.
It takes place in the year 2031 not too far into the future but far
enough to have some major differences.
In the story humans have developed a sophisticated body parts underground
trade. The story follows Bodyslick as he
does business around the world selling legs, hearts and even heads.
Bodystlick was more
Streetlit than it was Sci-fi. It had a
few elements of Sci-fi but more Streetlit elements. There were some pretty
gangster scenes in Bodyslick. While the pacing was fast and the chapters
weren’t long I felt the story was long.
It reminded me of the movie Sin City where the story went all over the
place but came together at the end. If I
could improve on something in the story, it would be to focus on the main story
because I felt a lot of the scenes weren’t important to the main conflict of
the story. Bodyslick was an enjoyable
read and I think it was a good book. I
like the characters being black. I like
the variety of elements in the story.
They surprised me. Robot love and
gangster kill scenes were not what I expected.
This book is a good entre into Sci-fi for Streetlit readers. We need more male readers and this book has
just the Donald Goines edge to interest them.
I give this book 3 stars.
